Swarthmore College offered its first elective course in Astronomy in the mid 1870's. In 1885, the Board reported a proposal
to erect an observatory near the east end of the College property. After Professor Susan Cunningham retired in 1906, Dr. John
A. Miller was appointed as Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy. Until 1952, courses were listed under the Department of
Mathematics and Astronomy; a separate Department of Astronomy existed until it became the Department of Physics and Astronomy
in the mid 1980's. Administrative files, departmental scrapbooks, correspondence, information on symposia and assemblies of
the International Astonomical Union, and miscellaneous records. Includes substantial information on eclipses and extensive
correspondence with astronomers throughout the world. Correspondants include: Margaret E. Powell, L.J. Comrie, Peter van de
Kamp, Sarah Lee Lippincott, James F. Wanner, Harry J. Augensen, J. Francisco Villamediana, John A. Miller, John H. Pitman,
Ross W. Marriott, and many other individuals and institutions

BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL
Swarthmore College offered its first elective course in Astronomy in the mid 1870's. In 1885, the Board reported a proposal
to erect an observatory near the east end of the College property. After Professor Susan Cunningham retired in 1906, Dr. John
A. Miller was appointed as Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy. Until 1952, courses were listed under the Department of
Mathematics and Astronomy; a separate Department of Astronomy existed until it became the Department of Physics and Astronomy
in the mid 1980's

The collection was transferred in 1996-97 from the Sproul Observatory to Friends Historical Library by Wulff Heintz shortly
before he retired and when space was being cleared out in Sproul for Development staff.

Processing information

Processing information
Some of the eclipse expedition records and photographic plates have been sent to the history of astronomy collection at Dartmouth.

AUTHOR Conference on Astronomical Research in Small Academic (1954: Swarthmore College) TITLE Report... / Sponsored by the National Science Foundation and Swarthmore College. Held at Sproul Observatory, Swarthmore
College, April 19, 20, 21, 1954. PUBLISHER [Washington, D.C.: National Science Foundation?], 1954.

AUTHOR Conference on Astronomical Research in Small Academic Departments (Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, Va.) TITLE Report of the Follow-Up Conference... / Sponsored by Swarthmore College and held at Randolph-Macon Woman's College
with the aid of a grant from the National Science Foundation, March 30, 31, April 1, 1957. PUBLISHER [Washington, D.C.: National Science Foundation, 1958]

TITLE Proceedings of the astrometric conference held in connection with the dedication of the 41-inch astrometric reflector
of the Observatory of Torino, 1974, May 26-28 / [Sarah Lee Lippincott, editor] PUBLISHER [s.l.: s.n.], 1975 (Firenze: Baccini &#38; Chiappi)

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